Farzad Sunavala

Product Manager

United States8 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led AI product delivery for Microsoft Copilot.
  • Built Azure's first managed vector database.
  • Developed AI platforms for 50,000+ employees.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Energy industry expert specializing in AI product management and engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementArtificial Intelligence (ai)Business StrategySoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Information RetrievalMicrosoft AzureMachine LearningTeam LeadershipAzure AIVector DatabaseAI PlatformsData StrategyStakeholder AlignmentAzureProduction EngineeringCustomer ServicePublic SpeakingNegotiationReliability

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Building AI products and production systems for enterprise.

Experience

8 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Product Manager Lead

Promoted

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · United States · Remote

  • Leading retrieval, memory, and knowledge platform services for AI agents across Microsoft Copilot products and enterprise customer workloads.
  • Led technical delivery of knowledge retrieval layer across M365 Copilot, Fabric, Xbox, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and GitHub Copilot.
  • Drove customer and partner engagements to deploy RAG, file search, and knowledge-retrieval workloads in production.
  • Architected Foundry IQ, a managed retrieval layer powering billions of daily queries.
  • Built evaluation frameworks for relevance, latency, and grounding accuracy across production systems.
  • Partnered with engineering, field, and executive stakeholders to scope deployments and codify repeatable AI rollout patterns.
Information RetrievalArtificial Intelligence (AI)Microsoft AzureMachine LearningTeam LeadershipProduct Management

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · United States · Remote

  • Built Azure AI Search’s foundational retrieval stack for generative AI, including Microsoft’s first managed vector database and semantic reranking capabilities.
  • Designed and launched Azure’s first Reranker Model (Semantic Ranker) and managed Vector Database from 0→1.
  • Led product direction for RAG and vector / hybrid retrieval across Azure AI scenarios.
  • Built quickstarts, tutorials, and reference architectures that drove 3× customer adoption.
  • Delivered workshops with startups and enterprise teams on RAG, vector search, and production AI deployment.
  • Fed customer implementation patterns back into product direction to improve usability and rollout readiness.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningProduct ManagementAzure AIVector Database

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2 roles

Product Manager

Promoted

Nov 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Houston, Texas, United States

  • Led product strategy and delivery for enterprise AI and data platforms supporting global operations across the energy value chain.
  • Built 0→1 AI and data platforms serving 50,000+ employees.
  • Led cross-functional delivery across engineers, data scientists, designers, and researchers.
  • Owned roadmap, rollout, KPI tracking, and stakeholder alignment across complex business environments.
  • Partnered with engineering leadership on AI transformation initiatives across global operations.
Product ManagementAI PlatformsData StrategyStakeholder AlignmentBusiness Strategy

Software Engineer

May 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Houston, Texas, United States

  • Built and deployed production AI applications on Azure for large-scale operational and engineering workflows.
  • Built 15+ Azure applications across anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and optimization.
  • Architected solutions supporting decisions across a $50B+ asset portfolio.
  • Developed ML and optimization systems across drilling, facilities, geology, and production workflows.
  • Worked with 50+ domain experts to translate business needs into production solutions.
AzureMachine LearningProduction EngineeringSoftware Engineering

Western refining

2 roles

Reliability Engineering Intern

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Greater Houston

Reliability Engineering Intern

Jun 2016Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Gallup, New Mexico

Education

Cornell University

Master of Engineering - MEng — Engineering Management

Louisiana State University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Engineering and Technical Sales

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